EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation Initiative Interoperability of EHR Work Group

1. EU-US eHealth/Health IT Cooperation InitiativeInteroperability of EHR Work Group August 28, 2013

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4. Agenda

5. General Announcements • We have obtained new dial in numbers to make it easier for those calling in from other Countries • GotoMeeting – uses Voice Over IP (VoIP) • The Interoperability Workgroup meets every Wednesday from 10:00am – 11:00am ET or 4:00pm-5:00pm CEST • To participate please see the “Weekly Meetings” Section of the EU-US eHealth Collaboration Wiki Homepage: http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+eHealth+Cooperation+Initiative Note: Please check the meeting schedule weekly to get the most up-to-date meeting information

6. Join the EU-US eHealth/Health ITCooperation Initiative • We encourage all members to “sign up” for the initiative. By joining this ensures you stay up-to-date with the work being done, communications and any initiative activities. • Simply complete the EU-US MOU Project Signup Form on the Wiki Page: http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+MOU+Roadmap+Project+Sign+Up

7. Today’s Goals

8. International Interoperability of EHRScope Statement • Working to accelerate and advance the progress of eHealth/health IT interoperability standards and interoperability implementation specifications for electronic health record systems for the unambiguous semantic interpretation of clinical data • that meet high standards for security and privacy protection and fidelity (faithful to the source) for the international community and for the enhanced care quality and safetyof the patient. • Working toward shared objective…. To support an innovative collaborative community of public- and private-sector entities, including suppliers of eHealth solutions, working toward the shared objective of developing, deploying, and using eHealth science and technology to empower individuals, support care, improve clinical outcomes, enhance patient safety and improve the health of populations.

9. International Interoperability of EHRGoals/Objectives… • To have international interoperability of electronic health records information to include: • semantic interoperability; • Including “levels” of achievement • syntactic interoperability; and • patient mediated data exchange (including privacy and security issues surrounding exchange of health data).

10. International Interoperability of EHRGoals/Objectives Continued • Three key goals of the technical work stream: • Identify a subset of commonly used vocabularies and terminologies that can serve as the basis of an internationally recognized subset to support semantic interoperability (shared meaning). • Harmonize the formats (or structures) for how information is structured to support syntactic interoperability • Support the use of Patient Mediated Data • Identify a working group (complete) and to begin defining pilot projects.

11. Today’s Goals

12. Real World Scenarios as a Path to our First Goal • Goal: Identify a subset of commonly used vocabularies and terminologies that can serve as the basis of an internationally recognized subset to support semantic interoperability (shared meaning). • Creating Scenarios helps determine which problem to address first • Further along in the Workgroup process we will discuss which vocabularies are relevant to that Real World Scenarios • Rather then bringing every vocabulary and terminology and standard to the table start with the ones that support the user story and expand from there

13. Real World Scenarios Criteria • It is simple and achievable (we want to declare success) • It is feasible and broadly realistic • It is patient centric (to start)

14. Real World Scenarios… • Moving From Country to Country • Regional issues – maybe not even country to country?? Can we constrain this or should we constrain this? Or even provider to provider • Broken Eyeglasses • Ran out/forgot of prescription medication while on vacation and need it refilled (for example blood pressure medication) • Ambulatory (patient has pre-existing condition such as diabetes that has been out of control and needs to fix the • Patient has a heart attack and ends up in the ER (or patient is hit by a car) • Foreign speaking hospital • When returning home information is able to follow them home (push – to go back home) • Group of students traveling with chaperon and chaperon needs to get medical records for treatment • Are we covering Military??? (pure military or quasi deployment) – sudden outbreak/natural disaster - NO

15. Real World Scenarios cont. • Quarantine situation and public health entity that this is happening • Blue Button • Portal being able to access by both patient and provider • Cell phone to hold the records • Planned Care • New USA citizens have a baby and they get their European parents to come and baby-sit 6 months at a time each (mother, then mother-in-law).  The mother has breast cancer that has been treated in Europe but need monitoring etc.  Healthcare insurance is provided by the family, she needs her USA physician to interact with her oncologist in Europe. (patient and provider-mediated access). • An elderly, but not yet retired, man lives 6 months in USA and 6 months in Europe to care for his elderly mother.  He was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and had radiation treatment.  He also has advanced degenerative disease and several other health conditions.  He needs regular PSA monitoring, bone scans etc. • Immunizations (tetanus) • A real world scenario of interest to us at King’s College London is where EU & US universities collaborate in health research studies and clinical trials: it would be excellent to have the semantic and syntactic means to reduce or eliminate the extra work to harmonize data sets. • Querying population for outbreak • Query for recalled prescription

16. Today’s Goals

17. Next Steps • Discussion…. • Interoperability Work Group will continue to meet every Wednesday from 10:00am - 11:00am (ET)/4:00pm - 5:00 pm (CEST) • Webinar Details: • https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/552324134 • Register for the meeting • Select the link supplied after registration (this will also appear in your email if you accidentally close the page before joining) • Check the Interoperability wiki regularly for updates: http://wiki.siframework.org/Working+Group+-+International+interoperability+of+health+records

18. Join the EU-US eHealth/Health ITCooperation Initiative • We encourage all members to “sign up” for the initiative. By joining this ensures you stay up-to-date with the work being done, communications and any initiative activities. • Simply complete the EU-US MOU Project Signup Form on the Wiki Page: http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+MOU+Roadmap+Project+Sign+Up

19. Visit the EU-US eHealth/Health ITCooperation Initiative Wiki Page • For the latest meetings announcements, meeting details and initiative contacts visit our homepage at http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+eHealth+Cooperation+Initiative.

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21. Interoperability Support Leads • US Point of Contacts • Mera Choi, Mera.Choi@hhs.gov • Jamie Parker, jamie.parker@esacinc.com • Gayathri Jayawardena, gayathri.jayawardena@esacinc.com • Amanda Merrill, amanda.merrill@accenturefederal.com • Emily Mitchell, emily.d.mitchell@accenturefederal.com • EU Point of Contacts • Benoit Abeloos, Benoit.ABELOOS@ec.europa.eu • Frank Cunningham, frank.cunningham@ec.europa.eu • Catherine Chronaki, chronaki@gmail.com • UK Point of Contacts

22. Questions

23. Resources • EU US Wiki Homepage • http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+eHealth+Cooperation+Initiative • Join the Initiative • http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+MOU+Roadmap+Project+Sign+Up • Reference Materials • http://wiki.siframework.org/EU-US+MOU+Roadmap+Project+Reference+Materials